1. 10 7月, 2009 2 次提交
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      hrtimer: Fix migration expiry check · 6ff7041d
      Thomas Gleixner 提交于
      The timer migration expiry check should prevent the migration of a
      timer to another CPU when the timer expires before the next event is
      scheduled on the other CPU. Migrating the timer might delay it because
      we can not reprogram the clock event device on the other CPU. But the
      code implementing that check has two flaws:
      
      - for !HIGHRES the check compares the expiry value with the clock
        events device expiry value which is wrong for CLOCK_REALTIME based
        timers.
      
      - the check is racy. It holds the hrtimer base lock of the target CPU,
        but the clock event device expiry value can be modified
        nevertheless, e.g. by an timer interrupt firing.
      
      The !HIGHRES case is easy to fix as we can enqueue the timer on the
      cpu which was selected by the load balancer. It runs the idle
      balancing code once per jiffy anyway. So the maximum delay for the
      timer is the same as when we keep the tick on the current cpu going.
      
      In the HIGHRES case we can get the next expiry value from the hrtimer
      cpu_base of the target CPU and serialize the update with the cpu_base
      lock. This moves the lock section in hrtimer_interrupt() so we can set
      next_event to KTIME_MAX while we are handling the expired timers and
      set it to the next expiry value after we handled the timers under the
      base lock. While the expired timers are processed timer migration is
      blocked because the expiry time of the timer is always <= KTIME_MAX.
      
      Also remove the now useless clockevents_get_next_event() function.
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      6ff7041d
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      hrtimer: migration: do not check expiry time on current CPU · 7e0c5086
      Thomas Gleixner 提交于
      The timer migration code needs to check whether the expiry time of the
      timer is before the programmed clock event expiry time when the timer
      is enqueued on another CPU because we can not reprogram the timer
      device on the other CPU. The current logic checks the expiry time even
      if we enqueue on the current CPU when nohz_get_load_balancer() returns
      current CPU. This might lead to an endless loop in the expiry check
      code when the expiry time of the timer is before the current
      programmed next event.
      
      Check whether nohz_get_load_balancer() returns current CPU and skip
      the expiry check if this is the case.
      
      The bug was triggered from the networking code. The patch fixes the
      regression http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13738
      (Soft-Lockup/Race in networking in 2.6.31-rc1+195)
      
      Cc: Arun Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com
      Tested-by: NJoao Correia <joaomiguelcorreia@gmail.com>
      Tested-by: NAndres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      7e0c5086
  2. 24 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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      timer stats: Optimize by adding quick check to avoid function calls · 507e1231
      Heiko Carstens 提交于
      When the kernel is configured with CONFIG_TIMER_STATS but timer
      stats are runtime disabled we still get calls to
      __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info which initializes some
      fields in the corresponding struct timer_list.
      
      So add some quick checks in the the timer stats setup functions
      to avoid function calls to __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info
      when timer stats are disabled.
      
      In an artificial workload that does nothing but playing ping
      pong with a single tcp packet via loopback this decreases cpu
      consumption by 1 - 1.5%.
      
      This is part of a modified function trace output on SLES11:
      
       perl-2497  [00] 28630647177732388 [+  125]: sk_reset_timer <-tcp_v4_rcv
       perl-2497  [00] 28630647177732513 [+  125]: mod_timer <-sk_reset_timer
       perl-2497  [00] 28630647177732638 [+  125]: __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info <-mod_timer
       perl-2497  [00] 28630647177732763 [+  125]: __mod_timer <-mod_timer
       perl-2497  [00] 28630647177732888 [+  125]: __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info <-__mod_timer
       perl-2497  [00] 28630647177733013 [+   93]: lock_timer_base <-__mod_timer
      Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Mustafa Mesanovic <mustafa.mesanovic@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
      LKML-Reference: <20090623153811.GA4641@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      507e1231
  3. 23 6月, 2009 37 次提交